Track and platform arrangement for railway stations



y J. R. w. AMBROSE 1,714,582

TRACK AND PLATFORM ARRANGEMENT FOR RAILWAY STATIONS Filed Jan. 23, 1928 Patented May 28, 1929 I I v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' 7 JOHN R. w. AMBROSE, on ToRoNTo, oNTARIo, CANADA.- TRACK AND PLATFORM ARRANGEMENT FOR RAILWAY sTATroNs.

Application filed January 23, 1928. Serial No. 248,788.

The principal objects of the invention are wide as required to enable the expeditions to obviate the extremely objectionable feahandling of baggage and express, the nartures of handling baggage and express on row connecting portion D being of suflicient the platforms used by passengers in railway width to accommodate the trucks.

stations and to provide separate platforms In an arrangement of tracks and plat giving access to opposite sides of the train forms such as described the maximum areas without an objectionable use of space. are arranged in the necessary locations and The principal feature of the invention the narrower portions are arranged where consists in the novel formation of the plat the wider accommodation is not required.

10 forms whereby passengerand baggage plat- The station area is thus conserved to the best forms are placed in an alternating arrangeadvantage and an absolute division of the ment, the passenger platforms being nartraflic is insured. rowed at the ends and the baggage platforms What I claim as my invention is being widened correspondingly at the ends 1. A track and platform arrangement for l with the intervening tracks curved to corrailway stations, comprising platforms havrespond with the arrangement providing ing converging adjacent ends and tracks wide passenger areas accessible for the curved to pass between the convergent ends.

coaches and wide baggage platforms acces- 2. A track and platform arrangement for sible to the baggage and express cars. railway stations, comprising broad passenger 20 The accompanying drawing is a plan view platforms 1 convergmg at the ends, tracks of my improved arrangement of platforms curved to conform to the convergent platand tracks. forms, and baggage platforms having di- In the handling of passenger traffic it is vergent ends approaching the convergent necessary to provide an ample width ofplatends of the passenger platforms and con- 25 form to accommodate large crowds and I forming to the curvature of said tracks.

propose to construct the wide passenger 3. A track and platform arrangement for platforms A of sufficient length to accommorailway stations, comprising, broad pas- 7 date the average number of passenger cars. senger platforms converging at the ends,

These platforms are narrowed at the ends tracks curved to conform to the convergent 30 a to allow of access to all cars of any length platforms, and narrow baggage platforms of train but it will be readily understood widening out at the ends to conform to the that a narrow platform at the ends of a train curvature of the tracks at the convergent will accommodate the passengers boarding ends vof the passenger platforms. or alighting from the end coaches. 4;. A track and platform arrangement for 35 The stairways or elevators B giving access railway stations, comprising broad passento these platforms willbe arranged centrally ger platforms converglng at the ends and to and from this point without obstruction. centre, tracks parallel with said platforms The tracks are curved to conform to the curved to conform to the converging ends 40 shape of the platform A and between each thereof, and baggage platforms arranged bepair of tracks C is arranged a narrow plattween the diverging tracks and having means form D which is widened at the ends to form of ingress and egress in their wider portions.

the baggage platforms E which will be as JOHN R. W. AMBROSE.

of the wider portion and the traffic will flow having means of ingress and egress at the 

